SEE ALSO

HISTORY

NASL comes from a private project called ’pkt_forge’, which was written in late 1998 by Renaud Deraison and which was an interactive shell to forge and send raw IP packets (this pre-dates Perl’s Net::RawIP by a couple of weeks). It was then extended to do a wide range of network-related operations and integrated into Nessus as ’NASL’.

The parser was completely hand-written and a pain to work with. In Mid-2002, Michel Arboi wrote a bison parser for NASL, and he and Renaud Deraison re-wrote NASL from scratch. Although the "new" NASL was nearly working as early as August 2002, Michel’s lazyness made us wait for early 2003 to have it working completely.

AUTHOR

Most of the engine is (C) 2003 Michel Arboi, most of the built-in functions are (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison